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Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College from 1987 to the present. The son and grandson of Cornish hardrock gold miners, Gary was born in Grass Valley. Gary is the founder and former director of the Sierra College Center for Sierra Nevada Studies and Editor-in-Chief emeritus of the Sierra College Press. In 2005, Gary was honored as the "Sierra College Instructor of the Year." In 2006, the Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTA), a national historical society, selected Gary as “Educator of the Year.” Gary is the author of Distant Horizon: Documents from the 19th Century American West (1999); co-editor, with Rick Heide, of The Illuminated Landscape: A Sierra Nevada Anthology (2010); author of Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots and Rogue (2014); Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss and Luck (2017), and the upcoming Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality! Revelry! Dissipation! Depravity! and the Birth of the Golden State (release date June 2020). Sierra Stories was the 2016 winner of the Gold Medal for Best Regional Nonfiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Friday | Rocklin Workshop - The Utility and Importance of Research in Writing
Friday | Rocklin Workshop - The Utility and Importance of Research in Writing
Regardless of the genre, one of the most indispensable tools a writer wields is research. By providing consistency and credibility, careful research can supply richness and texture to any work, whether fiction, nonfiction, poetry or prose. In this workshop, Gary Noy will address the power, value and necessity of research in the writing process. Gary will examine the pleasures and pitfalls of research, suggest a variety of useful resources and offer techniques that can make research more productive.
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